National Geographic: Wild Russia

This iconic and landmark series explores Russia's most mysterious and amazing locations and most iconic wildlife. Covering an expanse of over 6.6 million square miles Russia is epic in its scale. From east to west, via mountains, volcanoes, deserts, lakes and Arctic ice, its extremes are awe-inspiring.Russia's incredible wildlife inhabits terrain that extends across 12 time zones; from the tundra region in the far north to the Caucasus Mountains and prairies in the south it contains the planet's largest expanse of forest (22% of all the forest in the world), over 3.5 million square miles of mixed woodlands that are home to rare carnivores such as tigers, bears and leopards.Russia remains one of the world's great wildernesses.